Relating spatial distributions of pollutants to health effects. Technical report No. 1. [Relation of air pollution to epidemics of respiratory diseases]
A new and potentially useful statistical tool for epidemiology is introduced and some of its elementary properties are considered. The technique is a promising one for both data-analytic and inferential problems. Starting with the collection of isopleths of a spatially distributed explanatory variable (air pollution), the method produces a relationship between the explanatory variable(s) and the response variable (population-adjusted health effects) by accumulating the response within successively wider isopleths. Among other appealing features, the method has some of the flavor of regression, reduces the relationship between three three-dimensional distributions to a single easily interpreted two-dimensional graph, and effectively utilizes knowledge of the geographic location of data before discarding the location coordinates as nuisance parameters.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Univ., CA (USA). Dept. of Statistics
- DOE Contract Number:
- EY-76-S-02-2874
- OSTI ID:
- 7330300
- Report Number(s):
- COO-2874-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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